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Spoilers ahead for tonights episode ofThe Americans.
Henry Jennings has always been the neglected child onThe Americans.
For several seasons, his parents were never quite sure where he was at Dougs?
but now they at least know hes away at school.
How do you think that made Henry feel?
Throughout the rest of the series, hes shown as more of an independent person.
Obviously he has his friends and other interests.Yeah, yeah.
And then he went to school.
He even said, I just want to get out of this place, and he did.
I definitely understood it.
I think most kids would.
Hes unhappy about it, but he doesnt seem suspicious.
When work calls, they go, even if its in the middle of the night.
So tell me about shooting that scene in the car with Noah Emmerich.
How many takes did you have to do?
We were working at [calls out to his mother] Mom, was it like 3 a.m.?
Yeah, it was like 3 a.m. or something stupid that we finished working that night.
I actually ended up taking a nap in the car in between takes.
Like, no problem with that.
It was fun, nice, and good to spend time with Noah.
It was a long night, and that was after a whole day of school, too.
I know that sounds really bad, but I promise its okay.
Its a struggle, but its a struggle thats very worth it for me.
Obviously, youve had more than one scene with Noah Emmerich over the years.
What its like working with him?
I could not do that!
But I try my best to be fun to work with.
Sometimes a little bit of kid comes out and youre just like,Oooh, cant do that.
they get kind of annoying quick.
Its not because theyre not good people, but its because Im used to working with adults.
Because of what I do for work, Im constantly surrounded by adults.
So its a very, very weird transition, but I think Im more adult now.
You were saying before that youve learned a lot from working with Noah and Matthew and Keri.
Are there specific things you feel like you learned?
Im sure that they have different acting styles.I honestly didnt really take from their acting styles.
[But they did] bring out some really good moments and emotion in me.
I actually was not crying.
Oh, what do you think about this?
What do you think about that?
And for some reason, I just started crying.
And he was like, Okay lets do the scene, fast, fast, fast!
And he rushed everyone to get back to their position.
So we did the scene and it was the one we actually eventually ended up using.
I dont even know how he did it.
Do you remember what the questions were?No I dont!
And they were random, too.
They were just like, Oh, what do you feel about this?
What do you feel about that?
Do you know how to do this?
Do you know how to do that?
And for some reason, it just got to me.
It was really awesome and I thank him to this day for that.
So youll graduate from high school not this year but the next?2020.
Thats my senior year, yeah.
Because, as great as acting is, acting is very unstable.
So I would like to have a backup plan that doesnt revolve around acting.
Im going to be going in for cybersecurity in college.
I would have loved to have been on set a lot more, because I love what I do.
But I think they used Henry the perfect amount.
